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Thanks Atari, i haven't listened the splits withe The Iceburn Collective and Dalek and neighter Rai sanawachi koe wo hassu |
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Interesting stuff and, as perverse as it may sound, the reviewer may have a point about it being his best since The River. As great as Nebraska is, it's not an album I can listen to at will. Like most of his stuff up to and including The River, Magic has much more of that 'any-occasion' vibe. ED: In full agreement about Livin' in the Future by the way. |
einsturzende neubauten album is now in my top ten of the year.... closely followed by the new pram album...
man its been a great year for music! |
Great :
Gowns – Red state Islaja – Ulual yyy Battles – Mirrored Animal Collective – Strawberry jam Sunny Day in Glasgow – Scribble mural comic journal Good : Besnard Lakes – Are the dark horse Zelienople – His/Hers Panda Bear – Person pitch El-P - I’ll sleep when you’re dead Marissa Nadler – Songs III : Bird on the water P.J. Harvey – White chalk Acoustic Ladyland – Skinny grin Venetian Snaes – My downfall Thurston Moore – Trees outside the academy Nels Cline Singers – Draw breath Odawas – Raven and the white night Belaire – Exploding, impacting Nadja – Thaumogenesis OK (but somewhat disappointing) : Boris & Michio Kurikaha – Rainbow Charalambides – Electricity ghost Mira Calix – Eyes set against the sun Raccoo-oo-oon – Behold secret kingdom Alex Delivery – Star destroyer Radiohead – In rainbows Liars – Liars Skallander – Skallander Shape of Broad Minds – Craft of the lost art Moskitoo – Drape Thurston Moore – Flipped out bride Death Unit – Infinite death Deerhoof – Friend opportunity Shannon Wright – Let in the light Low – Drums and guns To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie – The patron Jesu – Conqueror Dälek – Abandoned language Efterklang – Under giant trees Deerhunter – Cryptograms Marie Stern – In advance of the broken arm Grinderman – Grinderman Arcade Fire – Neon Bible Angels of Light – We are him Elegi – Sistereis Bark Haze – Total joke era Dan Deacon – Spiderman of the rings Björk – Volta Meh / very disappointing : Shellac – Excellent Italian greyhound Grails – Burning off impurities Maher Shalal Hash Bash – L’autre cap Melt Banana – Bambi’s dilemma Blonde Redhead – 23 Xbxrx – Wars Tsssssssss : !!! – Myth takes Dinosaur Jr. – Beyond Menomena – Friend and foe Awful : Alcest – Souvenirs d’un autre monde Air – Pocket symphony |
THE GOOD:
animal collective (strawberry jam. LOVE the album cover + title as well) sunburned dinosaur (this one was fair...not great. the first four albums shit all over everything they've done since, though.) radiohead (another good album title) PJ harvey |
From what I've heard, best to worst:
Sir Richard Bishop - While My Guitar Violently Bleeds Battles - Mirrored Tartar Lamb - 60 Metonymies Melt-Banana - Bambi's Dilemma Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today Jesu - Conqueror William Basinski - El Camino Royale The Fall - Reformation Post TLC Grinderman - Grinderman EAQuartett - Electroacousticquartett And I THINK that's all I've heard. |
Highs:
Carlos Giffoni - Arrogance Battles - Mirrored The Ohsees - Sucks Blood Original Silence - The First Original Silence Fennesz/Sakamoto - Cendre Black Dice - Load Blown Merzbow/Carlos Giffoni/Jim O'Rourke - Electric Dress The Intelligence - Deuteronomy Panda Bear - Person Pitch Boris w/Michio Kurihara - Rainbow Marnie Stern - In Advance of the Broken Arm Liars - Liars Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity Pharoahe Monch - Desire Merzbow - Merzbear A Place To Bury Strangers - S/T Lows: There's been a lot of bullshit that I've had the displeasure of listening to. Some of the ones that I remember: Menomena The National Modest Mouse Radiohead Caribou The Arcade Fire Jens Lekman |
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I thought that was a 2006 release. Otherwise it definitely would have made my highlights list. |
Bump as we're closer to the end of the year
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melt bannana, majic markers, grinderman, polysics, shellac, neurosis, om, boris, grinderman (even though im pretty sure it came out in 06), panda bear, radiohead, battles, thurston, sunburned, deerhoof, black dice, soft circle, weedeater, deerhunter, ghostface/wu tang,
im gonna go ahead and say this was an above average year for records |
fuck i forgot jesu
the new liars was fuckin pussy, literally, they made two extremly far out records and in all honesty i thought they were on some next level shit, totally different than any other "indie" bands, and yes i know they change thier sound up, but its not very brave to go to near unlistenable noise, to weird ambient chanting shit, to straight up rock songs, fuck that. i still have faith in them tho. |
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HOLY FUCK DID YOU SAY NEW WIRE? FUCK YEAH! |
Additions to my lists:
Between OK and great: Neil Young - Chrome dreams II OK: Sigur Rós - Hvarf / Heim (the DVD is surely much more interesting) I haven't heard the new Bowie but apparently it sucks. |
I don't think I listed rhys chatham "A criminal grail"; that did come out in 2007 right? If so, make that the best record of the year.
Seriously, everyone here go listen to Toddle. Every part of every song is a hook! And yes.. Wire - Read and Burn 3 is out, and it's cool. |
The read and burn eps are good enough, but i dont think ive ever obsessivley listened to any of them. Not like i still obsessivley listen to Pink Flag and 154.
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Panda Bear person pitch
Recent abduction sun city girls reissues angelblood mambo mange j. d. emmanuel wizard Julian Cope JAPROCKSAMPLER henry flynt and nova'billy novabilly magik markers boss Paul Metzger Deliverance big disappointments gang gang dance rawwar animal collective strawberry jam valerie project That stooges record |
I'm listening to Read & Burn 3 and I'm feeling kind of disappointed. Even using Send as a reference point instead of their early stuff I'm disappointed. I'm not fond of the way it is mixed. It doesn't grip me the way that their other stuff does.
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it's cool. it's not.. great. it's just cool.
new zazen boys ep is out! getting it now! edit: just got it, uploaded it here.. http://www.sendspace.com/file/nkxtjl Sounds very battles-influenced compared to their older stuff.. weird! |
So that new Einsturzende's good? I've been meaning to pick it up but haven't gotten around to it yet.
Albums I really dug: Magik Daggers-Black Diamonds EP Deadchovsky-Spiritus Sancti Bizarre Angels Of Light-We Are Him Naked On The Vague-Blood Pressure Sessions Chromatics-IV Glass Candy-Beatbox |
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Good to see some love for my Sydney buddies. Check out the EP they did recently called "The Sad Sun" EP. I personally like it better, it reflects the weird kinda gothic jams they've been doing recently. Also Matthews solo project Lamp Puffer (was called Bad Tables until a few weeks ago) is pretty cool. http://www.myspace.com/lamppuffer |
Highs:
Battles - Mirrored Kala - M.I.A. Grinderman - Grinderman PJ Harvey - White Chalk Radiohead - In Rainbows LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver Justice - Cross Arcade Fire - Neon Bible Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond Magik Markes - Boss OK: Thurston Moore - Trees Outside The Academy Wilco - Sky Blue Sky Bright Eyes - Cassadaga The Tough Alliance - A New Chance Lows: Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist Arctic Monkeys - Your Favorite Worst Nighmare - Worst album of 2007 Lots more stuff I have to listen to. |
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Hmm cool stuff. Yeah I haen't heard The Sad Sun EP yet, not sure if it's out here or not...but they're coming to play here in March so I'm sure I'll be able to pick it up then. |
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Queens of the Stoneage- Era Voulgaris..... 6/6 Foo Fighters--Echo, Silence.... 6/6 Thurston Moore- Trees outside the Acedamy 6/6 Paul Mc Cartney---Memory almoast full 6/6 i don´t bought more records from 2007 but they were all very excellent. |
Highs:
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible Radiohead - In Rainbows Dinosaur Jr - Beyond Rhys Chatham - A Crimson Grail Battles - Mirrored Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam Panda Bear - Person Pitch Magik Markers - Boss Sleeping People - Growing Toddle - Dawn Praise the World Grinderman - S/T Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy Lows: Smashing Pumpkins The Stooges :( |
Wow, it sure is a good feeling to read all the indie bullshit Pitchfork dicksucking awful album loving in this thread and little to no recognition (except for some of you) of truely great albums.
Wait, good feelings are followed by vomit and a little bit of bleeding, right? |
Also, people on this board actually listen to the Smashing Pumpkins.
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Dirty Projectors' Rise Above is one great big HIGH.
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i'll post my personal low points and disappointments, then at some point the high points (work in progress):
-the weirdness -beyond -boss -in rainbows (disc one has some great songs but it's the first underwhelming and static rh album since pablo honey) -grinderman (could have been an spectacular ep, ended up being an ok to good album). -big business - here come the waterworks (after the brilliant head for the shallow, the guys do an album of mediocre melvins-wannabe songs). -spoon - ga ga ga ga ga (good but i haven't really listened to it again) -angelcorpse - of lucifer and lightning (very by the numbers for a return of a brilliant band) -pelican - city of echoes (like b-sides of their last album) -pretty much everything on load records (mediocre releases by great bands, mostly) -modest mouse - the ship sank whatever (even though some tunes are amazing) -low - drums and guns (a failed experiment, "your poison" and "murderer" almost make up for the duds) -chinese stars - left side of the brain (dire, awful band) -xasthur - defective epitaph -von südenfed -wu-tang clan - 8 diagrams (some songs are good, though) -beirut - the flying club cub -down III -black dice - load blown (but i didn't expect much) -iron and wine - shepherd's dog -caribou - andorra -qui - love's miracle -blues control (seemed half baked) -leslie keffer and inca ore tape (had big hopes for both) |
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I'm glad someone besides me thought that album was amazing. |
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Maybe because Corgan has great songwriting skills sometimes (cf obscured for instance). |
ohh yeah, more lows, ultra lows actually.
-björk - volta (because it's the only one of hers that i had any expectations and yeah, you know) -m.i.a. - kala (how people consider it music is beyond me) |
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Liars self titled was really disappointing, Strawberry Jam was really appointing.
Ive lost touch with modern music this year im afraid. So much so im getting a rekkid player for Xmas. And that Battles business has done nothing for me, which i think is a healthy sign of my own cynicism |
Dirdn't buy so many albums this year compared to years past, but...
good: M.I.A. - Kala Circle - Katapult Oren Ambarchi - Stacte Motors Sir Ricahrd Bishop - While My Guitar Violently Bleeds Keith Rowe - The Room Birchville Cat Motel - Bird Sister Blasphemy Kan Mikami - Barking Practice /// White Lines Enkidu - Live in Kyoto ***shameless self promotion*** Lead Sister II - Interplanetary Craft (coming soon) ***shameless self promotion*** Uton - Alitaju Ylimina UA - Golden Green Retolt Mandala - SF Munou Koukyoubutsu Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde Sunburned Circle Wooden Shjips meh: NNCK - 9 for Victor LSD March: Constellation of Tragedy Sunn 0))) - Oracle Blues Control |
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Yeah, dude. That's what I was thinking. |
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awesome stuff:
Zelienople - His/Hers (probably album of the year) Wooden Shjips - Wooden Shjips The Terminals - Last Days Of The Sun Larsen & Friends - ABECEDA Patten - There Were Horizons Pram - The Moving Frontier Starving Weirdos - Shrine Of The Post-Hypnotic Circle - Katapult Loren Connors - The Hymn Of The North Star Rhys Chatham - A Crimson Grail Bachi Da Pietra - Non Io good stuff: Thurston Moore - Trees Outside The Academy Burning Star Core - Operator Dead... Post Abandoned The Angels Of Light - We Are Him Adjágas - Adjágas Midnite Snake - Shaving The Angel Om - Pilgrimage Sightings - Through The Panama Sunroof! - Panzer Division Lou Reed disappointing stuff: Charalambides - Likeness La Otracina - Tonal Ellipse Of The One Richard Youngs - Autumn Response Kevin Ayers - The Unfairground Skullflower - Abyssic Lowland Hiss utter shite: Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist Warmer Milks - Interiors The National Lights - The Dead Will Walk Dear Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde NIN - Year Zero |
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Am I the only person who thinks that Battles don't deserve all the hype that they have been getting?
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